Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
'Isn't madness,' he asked, 'one of the possibilites we've been talking about?' When top government scientist, Professor Howard Juniper, goes missing it's not simply a missing persons case. At the height of the Cold War, Juniper has been researching and developing biological weapons. Thought to be carrying a biological culture of inconceivable virulence, Juniper must be found... and fast.

Inspector John Appleby is called upon to solve this mystery. Enlisting the help of Howard's twin brother, Miles, Appleby hatches a plan for Miles impersonate his brother in order to buy some time.

But Appleby has three terrifying leads to follow: has Juniper been kidnapped, has he defected, or has he simply gone mad?

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media / Agora Books, ISBN: 9781504092289 (July, 2024), 202 p., $17.99.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
Scotland Yard's director and a school headmaster team up to find a missing biological warfare expert in this classic, Cold War-era mystery thriller.

At the height of the Cold War, one of Britain's top-secret scientists is missing. Prof. Howard Juniper was last seen leaving his lab where he conducted research on biological warfare. What's even more troubling is he may have a virulent, deadly sample with him. He must be found as quickly -- and with as little publicity -- as possible.

Under direct order from the prime minister, Sir John Appleby, the head of Scotland Yard, is taking up the search. First, he must buy some time. Appleby persuades Howard's twin, Miles, a boarding school headmaster, to impersonate his brother. Next, Appleby must follow up on his three frightening leads: either Howard has been kidnapped, he has defected to the Soviets, or he has gone mad...

With the stealth of a spy, Appleby now must race against the clock to find the missing scientist before all hope is lost.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504088268 (June, 2023), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 208 p.), $14.99.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
When a germ-warfare expert goes missing, his twin brother impersonates him as a cover-up, but for how long can this last? Inspector Appleby is sent on a series of wild goose chases, which take him to a preparatory school, to the estate of an eccentric earl, and to a remote Atlantic rock, before a truly shocking climax.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327380 (January, 2001), 182 p., $11.50.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
A top-level scientist named Howard Juniper suddenly disappears from his laboratory with a deadly bacteriological culture. Has he been kidnapped? Did he defect? Or is he quietly mad -- and planning humanity's destruction? Sir John Appleby follows the trail to the lonely and "prohibited" island of Arday, off the coast of Scotland, and makes a chilling discovery.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. A Sir John Appleby Mystery. HarperPerennial, ISBN: 0060805900 (July, 1991), 159 p., $5.95.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
A top-level scientist named Howard Juniper suddenly disappears from his laboratory with a deadly bacteriological culture. Has he been kidnapped? Did he defect? Or is he quietly mad -- and planning humanity's destruction? Sir John Appleby follows the trail to the lonely and "prohibited" island of Arday, off the coast of Scotland, and makes a chilling discovery.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. New York: Harper & Row, 1982, Perennial Library P590, ISBN: 0060805900, 159 p., $2.95.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (UK 1981)

From the Publisher:
A top-level scientist has disappeared - and is thought to be carrying with him a bacteriological culture of almost inconceivable virulence.

Kidnapped?
A nervous breakdown?
Defected to the enemy?
Or is he quietly mad and plotting the destruction, of the whele of verminous humanity?

For Sir John Appleby the hunt is on: from a boys' prep school to the estate of the bird-crazy Earl of Ailsford, next on a wild goose chase to a remote Scottish island... And finally to a superb dénouement, with a splendid conflagration of villains.

"Brilliant" - EVENING STANDARD
"Deathwishers' thriller of the month" - OBSERVER

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. Featuring Sir John Appleby. Hamlyn Whodunnit, ISBN: 0600201481 (April, 1981), 192 p., £?.??.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (UK 1964)

From the Publisher:
'Deathwishers' thriller of the month' was Maurice Richardson's description in the Observer of a fantasy which gradually assumes the lurid colours of civilization's sunset. The disappearance of a germ-warfare expert could be hushed up for a while: his twin brother could impersonate him. But for how long?

As Appleby is drawn off on one wild-goose chase after another - to an innocent preparatory school, to the estate of an eccentric earl, to a remote Atlantic rock - Michael Innes's story winds up to a climax that makes murder look like a harmless frolic.

'Brilliant' - Evening Standard

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964, Penguin Books No. C2201, 170 p., 3'6.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 1964)

From the Publisher:
When Howard Juniper, one of Britain's most eminent bacteriologists, disappears, Sir John Appleby turns his total attention to locating him. If Juniper's magnificent mind has slipped its moorings, the world could be in for an early and exceedingly nasty end.

The search has many memorable moments, one of them when Appleby breaches the remote country stronghold of Lord Ailsworth -- a hater of mankind, a lover of wildfowl, and all in all, a classic English eccentric.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1964, Berkley Medallion Book F958, 159 p., 50¢.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up (USA 1959)

From the Publisher:
"A WORLD empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up" seems a desirable state of affairs to a character in D. H. Lawrence's WOMEN IN LOVE. Michael Innes' new novel is about a bacteriologist, Howard Juniper, who has it in his power to bring about something very like this clean sweep. Juniper disappears from his laboratory, and Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard goes in search of him: first to the preparatory school owned by Juniper's twin brother; then to the mysterious country seat of Lord Ailsworth, a misanthrope and an authority on the migration of birds; and finally to the lonely and "prohibited" island of Ardray, off the Atlantic coast of Scotland, where an unlikely rumor that the Great Auk is breeding again proved in a sense true.

This is a fast-moving mystery story in the tradition of THE CASE OF THE JOURNEYING BOY and THE MAN FROM THE SEA.

Michael Innes: Hare Sitting Up. A Red Badge Mystery Novel. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1959, 215 p., $2.95.